pemasu & rerwin:
Unexpected release by BK of 5.4.3 has introduced some additional considerations about the (still) non-functioning rt2800usb. Flying blind, this is what I have done/am doing:
I deleted the previous (retro)Precise and loaded a FULL of 5.4.3 . This was not uneventful; FULL may broken or something residing on my machine that wasn't fully deleted may be broken. FULL doesn't start up properly, loadsa messages, prompt instead of opening screen, but, by various subterfuges, I can get it up & running. I will work on the install aspect as far as I am able and report again, here, about this.
In the meantime, I attempted to connect with the rt2800usb dongle using both SNS & Dougal's utilities. At this stage, that is all - they both failed as before. I attach the pmodemdiag file as previously requested.
I will now go away and run the patches, one at a time, kindly provided by you guys and report back.

I ran the pemasu file rt2800usb-preference-fix and tried again to connect without success. The pmodemdiag file is attached.

Then I ran the rerwin pdiag-20121216 file and floundering without exact recipe of what to do next except run 'depmod'. A few more instructions would be welcome, but, since it's only 5am in Maine, will clean the system down with cfdisk and re-install everything, hoping the FULL install will also benfit from cleansing.

Sorry guys, have to suspend modem testing. There is something seriously wrong with FULL for 5.3.4 that wasn't there before. Have flagged it on BK's blog and will have to leave it there for the moment - too many other commitments to catch up on.

I too am using rt2800usb and a Linksys plugin, and have had nothing but headaches and grief with it.

I could not get wifi to connect using the 'setup' icon (desktop) to go to the function, or the 'connect' icon (desktop) to go to the setup function! Using NSS (I believe Dougal's or something like that)they would in fact allow me to configure the wifi but could not 'find' the wifi afterwards.

To my surprize, I tried clicking on the 'Tray Internet Icon' to go to the setup function, and it worked after the second setup try... have no idea why this is but it worked the same for me also in Dpup-Precise and also Exprimo.

Many thanks, ssz.
After lunch I discovered that the (still) defective FULL had actually booted up. I looked in the modules list and now, in 5.4.3 FULL, none is loaded by default. rt2800usb has been completely removed from the list, so I loaded the two on offer, rt2500/73usb and rebooted. One of the curious features of this installation is that 'depmod' in console reports 'Bus Error'. Never seen it before, no idea what it's all about, but noticed that the booting process pauses for a very long time >5mins at depmod. Blackscreening seems to have stopped now at third boot attempt (I read of other folks' experiences with this curious symptom). Tried to load 2500 or 73 with nil effect. Pointless running pmodemdiag, presumably? Nothing there to 'diag' !
Will await BK's magic touch to put Precise back in working order.
Till then adieu - at least on this thread. Probably.
Maybe not, though.
Not wishing to be defeated, in desperation, loaded the entirely inappropriate PAE version on this old all-Intel 2.66G(32-bit)/512M machine and BINGO - everything wireless is working. All the issues reported above refer to the (recommended!) retro version, which has been more useful in my testing regimens so far as I can muster kit from a K6-II/Athlon750 in small increments to a 939 and occasional loan of completely unnecessary, but widespread, multiple core machines. Wierd indeed, especially as the retro version is ~30% larger, presumably to accommodate a bigger range of ancient HW?
For completeness, I took the precaution of loading pemasu rt...fix and rerwin's pdiag. Could prove useful when moving this HD around on a caddy.
Thanks for your forebearance, folks. Look forward to BK repairing the retro version for future deployment.

broomdodger.
I see exatcly the same mplayer output in my Upup Precise, but the video plays. So I cant find exactly useful debug info though there are several error messages. I have them also but the video still plays.
There seem to be some version mismatches from some reason.

It can be graphics card problem also.

pemasu
I tried the same mp4 video on another machine, Toshiba Satellite M205

It has a different graphics card and... the videos play.

Strange that the video plays on the ThinkPad with racy5300,
but not with precise 5430.

pdvdrsab: stops at 35% when ripping a movie. Can anyone explain this._________________What consenting adults do in their bedroom is none of your business so if you think there is something wrong with homosexuality and your bothered by it, then you're an idiot who needs to mind their own business.

Here is for testing. You need to remember that this driver is from year 2010 and it needed patching. Also there surely are some usb ids which are not included. But you can try. I did add preference of rt2870sta over rt2800usb to the MODULESCONFIG file in the pet.

Wpa_supplicant handling has been added in compile stage to config.mk file.

These Ralink devices seem to have taken over as bête noire of the wi-fi arena.
In view of mine, ssz. and others reporting Ralink issues, particularly in Precise, it would be helpful if bd could advise whether he is using the PAE or retro version? As he can see from mine and other reports, there may be video issues as well as wireless ones in the latter.

I can confirm that a change to 96 dpi will benefit 90% of users, the one possible exception being some netbook users who may need to throttle back to 84 or less during initial setup and save file creation as (depending on hardware) choice boxes may be off screen with a resolution of 1024x600.

On balance I would still however go for 96 dpi and can confirm the beneficial effect of then using hinting on LCD & IPS panels.

I believe that I was instrumental in persuading 01micko to include Fontwizard in Slacko and suggest that you also consider including his revised pet:

Downloaded the 5.4.3 iso from Ibiblio and burned it onto the same BD-RE (rewritable Blu-Ray disk) that contained 5.4.x.2, using Burniso2cd in Precise Puppy 5.4.x.2. (Burniso2cd will overwrite whatever is on a rewritable DVD or Blu-Ray disk without first requiring the disk to be blanked.)

After burning the Blu-Ray disk, I left it in the burner and clicked the Save icon on Precise Puppy 5.4.x.2's desktop. This saved the state of Puppy as it was in RAM as the first (two, as it turns out) sessions on the Blu-Ray disk. After 5.4.x.2 finished saving itself on the Blu-Ray disk, I rebooted and then saved again.

Now the multisession Blu-Ray Puppy boots the same as it did before I upgraded, with all my settings and installed programs intact. Only now it's Precise 5.4.3.

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